Alice Walker

"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."

"I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it."

"Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything."

"I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And i think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to des…"

"I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know …"

"Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet."

"I felt in Georgia and on the east coast generally very squeezed. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box or they need to la…"

"He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should th…"